I received GM3ITN in 1950 when I was 15. Which was a 25 watt licence cw only that was 69 years ago and now I am 84 years old. I also hold the calls DL2YI, EA1DNP and VP8ITN.
My Interests: Gardening, BrownTrout fishing (finding it hard to get up the hill to the loch), and Ham Radio operating, mostly these days on 20 and 40 CW and odd time on SSB, I am not a member of any radio club, Really a LONE WOLF operator.
Over 140 countries worked on 160 mtrs with a TS180 100w and a 100mtr long wire.
Collecting QSL's with a 70,000+ collection of QSL cards.
MY STATION IS A TS590S and a Heath HL2200 AMP with a Homebrew 3ELE YAGI MONOBANDER DXterminator FOR 20M and on 40mtrs, TS850SAT into a SB1000 Heath AMP ino a INV VEE ON A 60FT TOWER, 40ft during winter months due to North Atlantic storms we have here in the West of Scotland.
A Stamp collector of GB and FALKLAND IS. AND DEPS, SOUTH GEORGIA AND SOUTH SANDWICH IS. BRIT ANTARCTIC TERR, AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY and N.Z.ROSS Dependency.
Member of A1OPS, RCC, Royal Order of Transatlantic Brasspounders, ex FOC#528.
WAZ-RTTY, WAS-RTTY, RSGB EMPIRE DX CERTIFICATE, WAJA and many other awards, the first being the Aberdeen Coronation Award in 1952.
DXCC Honor Roll-1 in 1983, DXCC Mixed Score 385 COUNTRIES CONFIRMED TOP U.K. SCORE
First UK op. with over 1000-IOTA ISLANDS CONFIRMED.
World top score in the French Arctic Challenge and Polar Awards 2012.
A time served Letterpress and Lithographic printer by trade, Retired 1999.
National Service with the British Army Royal Artillery Radar Op. BAOR 44 ex DL2YI (Oldenburg GERMANY 1954-56) HM. FORCES VETERAN, Member South Atlantic Medal Association, Falkland War Veteran (Ex South Atlantic-1982) VP8ITN.
GB2AC was the first GB2 Callsign ever in Scotland for our Dxpedition to Ailsa Craig in 1959.